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A few weeks ago, NVIDIA introduced the second-generation Maxwell architecture with the GM204 GPU, which is I believe, an incredible chip.
The Maxwell 2 architecture is both highly energy efficient (~2x perf/watt of Kepler in games), and provides a lot of very exciting new graphics features (Some of them are exposed in Direct3D. See the GeForce GTX 980 white paper).
These features are exposed in form of new OpenGL extensions starting with the R344 driver, and the specification for all NVIDIA...

NVIDIA Turf Effects is a new NVIDIA GameWorks technology that empowers users to simulate and render massive grass simulation with physical interaction. Our grass technology provides a fully geometrical representation. Grass blades can be represented with a resolution as low as 3 triangles to several 100 triangles per blade by using continuous level of detail. This allows millions of grass blades to be simulated.
The high fidelity allows for enhanced physical interaction. The rendering supports...

NVIDIA GRID hardware and software provides a highly efficient and cost-effective infrastructure
for cloud game streaming. With baremetal server configurations, API hooking is the key technique
in the development of a full-fledged streaming solution. This technical blog will present several
recommendations for this important technique.
Introduction
To facilitate cloud gaming powered by NVIDIA GRID, a software layer for managing multiple
concurrent game sessions is needed. This can be...

Like many other visual effects, games attempt to mimic transparent (or translucent as it’s often synonymously referred to
in the games industry) objects as closely as possible. Real world transparent objects are often modelled in games using a
simple set of equations and rules; simplifications are made, and laws of physics are bent, in an attempt to reduce the
cost of simulating such a complex phenomenon. For the most part we can get plausible results when rendering semi-transparent...

Google launches Android 5.0 "Lollipop" with full ARMv8-A 64 bit and OpenGL 3.1 + AEP support on the Nexus 9 tablet powered by the NVIDIA® Tegra® K1 64 bit mobile processor.
In what is surely the most casually cool approach to a product and major OS launch in living memory, Google posted a blog last Wednesday to unveil Android version 5.0 (named Lollipop) and a suite of new Nexus products. Leading the Lollipop charge is the Nexus 9 tablet powered by the NVIDIA Tegra K1 64 bit...